Original Collage on Paper - unframed 700 x 500

Nicholas Charles Patrick Huxley is one of Australia's most prominent figures within the fashion design industry and was the head of Australia's most prestigious fashion design institute, the Fashion Design Studio at Ultimo's TAFE. Nicholas has trained and mentored many of our fashion luminaries including Akira Isogawa, Alex Perry, Nicky Zimmermann, Bianca Spender, Dion Lee and more recently Yousef Akbar.

Having started on his path toward professional artist, designer and teacher with a Full time Certificate in Fashion Design at East Sydney College in 1973, Nicholas worked for a couple of prominent fashion houses as a designer and illustrator in Australia before starting to teach in 1979. He became head teacher of the Fashion Design Studio in 1990, completed a Master of Design Degree at UNSW in 2015 and left the school in 2018 after being poached to set up the Miami Fashion Institute in Florida for a year(2016-2017) and to continue his travels and to mentor internationally including the Masai in East Africa and Fiji.

Nicholas is incredibly dedicated both to his students and to his craft, freelancing as an artist and designer for prominent names such as Nicole Kidman and Elle, Marie Claire and Vogue magazines while teaching. During his time at FDS Nicholas initiated many a partnership including Sydney's Strand Arcade and an annual evening wear runway show and competition, Dylon Dyes, Grand Marnier, Croser Vintage and Australian Fashion Week all for the main purpose of promoting the talents of the FDS design students.

Due to his dedication, Nicholas has received many honours and accolades in his field. In 1989 he was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Costume Design for the film Sons of Steel and has been asked to be a part of the annual Jeans for Genes art auction for five consecutive years. Nicholas has won two Fashion Industry of Australia awards and was nominated nine times for the NSW Government Fashion Laureate as well as being nominated for the Fashion Group International’s Life time Achievement Award. In 2007 he was named one of The Sydney Magazine’s 100 most influential people and was a recipient of In Style’s Walk of Fame at Circular Quay during Mercedes Benz Australian Fashion Week.

He has had great success with two exhibitions at Paddington’s prominent Maunsell-Wickes gallery in Sydney and will be honoured with a plaque in the pavement as the next recipient at the Walk of Style at the Intersection in Paddington.

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